It is sermon grading season for me as the semester ends so unsurprisingly when I started to ponder a topic for today’s blog, all things

At the recent Festival of Faith & Writing here at Calvin College and Seminary, I had the great privilege of interviewing pastor and author Fleming

Mark Zuckerberg is slated to appear before Congress this week, and most observers anticipate that he will be filleted, skewered, and roasted before it’s all

“From the One who was and is and is to come.”  We’ve heard this benediction before.   It points to the God, to the Savior, who

Probably we underestimate the long odds faced by the Christian faith among its earliest disciples and congregations.   The ancient Greco-Roman world in which the Gospel

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”  1 John 5:21 In the Bible it was very often the case that various idols did not replace worship

It is the last day of Epiphany today.  Ash Wednesday ushers us into Lent tomorrow.  Although it can be shorter by about ten whole days

Sheldon Cooper is one of the world’s more brilliant scientists. As portrayed by Jim Parsons on the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” contains sentence after sentence of searing and memorable prose. But already years ago when I first